The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of notable poems that deal with our own sensibilities and human qualities, covering subjects such as memory; thoughts and dreams; the figure of the poet; books; music; the arts; work and labor; contentment; rest; and sleep. - Summary by Tomas Peter
Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel RogersSudden Light by Dante Gabriel RossettiPre-Existence by Paul Hamilton HayneOnce Before by Mary Mapes DodgeA Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne ProcterThe Closing Year by George Denison PrenticeRoma: From 'Poesie' by Giosuè CarducciThere Is Such Power: From 'Sonnets in Shadow' by Arlo BatesVerses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez by William CowperMignon's Song: From 'Wilhelm Meister' by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOft in the Stilly Night by Thomas MooreOn the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau'T Is but a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine HowarthThe Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson ShanlyMemory and Oblivion by MacedoniusThe Inner Vision by William WordsworthThought by Christopher Pearse CranchDream-Life: From 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of' by Pedro CalderónMy Minde to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward DyerTo One Who Had Scoffed at the Poet's Poverty by MartialOf a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord VauxA Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: From 'Endymion,' Book I by John KeatsThe Sower and his Seed by William E.H. LeckyÆsop by Andrew LangIndirection by Richard RealfProem by Madison CaweinThe Poet of Nature: From 'Festus' by Philip James BaileyAbove the Clouds by Joaquin MillerThe Poet's Impulse: From 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' Canto III by Lord ByronImpression by Edmund GosseThe Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner PalgraveOn his 'Sonnets of the Wingless Hours' by Eugene Lee-HamiltonThe Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)Unknown Poets: From 'The Excursion,' Book I by William WordsworthThe Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin DobsonOn First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John KeatsThe Odyssey (Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation) by Andrew LangSonnet: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip SidneyThe Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin BeersThe Sonnet by Richard Watson GilderAn Autograph by James Russell LowellArt by Sir Gilbert ParkerBroken Music by Thomas Bailey AldrichThe Modern Poet (A Song of Derivations) by Alice MeynellThe Jester's Plea by Frederick Locker-LampsonVerses Why Burnt by Walter Savage LandorSweet Nature's Voice: From 'Susan: A Poem of Degrees' by Arthur Joseph MunbyGenius by Richard Henry Hengist HorneOne Day I Wrote her Name: From 'Amoretti,' Sonnet LXXV by Edmund SpenserThe Poet's Death: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto V by Sir Walter ScottThy Songs and Mine by Julia C.R. DorrThe Sharing of the Earth by J.C. Friedrich von SchillerThe Immortality of Genius by Sextus PropertiusWritten on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice ThompsonBooks: From 'The Kaléder of Sheperdes,' 1528 by AnonymousThe Scholar: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry TaylorThe Book-Stall by Clinton ScollardBooks by John HigginsInfluence of Music: From 'King Henry Eighth,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William ShakespeareMusic: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act V. Sc. 1 by William ShakespeareTo —— by Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Cello by Richard Watson GilderA Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687 by John DrydenThe Spell by Paul VerlaineThe Passions (An Ode for Music) by William CollinsInvocation: From 'The Davideis' by Abraham CowleyAlexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music (An Ode) by John DrydenBeethoven's Third Symphony by Richard HoveyPan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence StedmanOn an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey AldrichThe Artist by Arthur GrissomA Painted Fan by Louise Chandler MoultonOn a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour (Ballade) by Austin DobsonHack and Hew by Bliss CarmanThe Axe: From 'Malcolm's Katie' by Isabella Valancy CrawfordLabor by Frances Sargent OsgoodThe Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones'The Man with the Hoe' by Edwin Markham'The Man with the Hoe' (A Reply) by John Vance CheneyCorn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer ElliottFor a' That and a' That by Robert BurnsThe Good Time Coming by Charles MackayThe Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord TennysonDelay by Charlotte Fiske BatesThe Happy Heart: From 'Patient Grissell,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Thomas DekkerThe Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La FontaineLabor Done: From 'Song of the Bell' by J.C. Friedrich von SchillerHaste Not! Rest Not! by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWork by Henry van DykeA Wish by Abraham CowleyContentment by Joshua SylvesterContent: From 'Farewell to Follie,' 1617 by Robert GreeneSong by John BunyanIn Prison by Sir Roger L'EstrangeCleon and I by Charles MackayThe Wants of Man by John Quincy AdamsContentment ('Man Wants but Little Here Below') by Oliver Wendell HolmesUlysses by Alfred, Lord TennysonTo All in Haven by Philip Bourke MarstonA Woman's Wish by Mary Ashley TownsendThe World and the Quietist by Matthew ArnoldRest by Margaret L. WoodsInvocation to Sleep: From 'Valentinian' by John FletcherSleep by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)Sleep: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip SidneySleep: From 'Second Part of Henry IV,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William ShakespeareSleeplessness by William WordsworthWatching (In Burmah) by Emily Chubbuck JudsonThe Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth EatonThe Two Oceans by John SterlingOde to Sleep by Paul Hamilton HayneThe Fallen (In Memoriam, May 30) by John Vance Cheney
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